VEB Film Club: Angels in the Outfield – Which Version Hits a Home Run for Your Heart?
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I’ll get the negatives out of the way first, but I kind of hate the score. This movie got called cheesy, and it is, but a movie like this will have a certain amount of sentimentality and cheese anyway, but the baseball scenes and the score are like 95 percent of the reason it was too much. It doesn’t really feel much like a Disney movie except the score makes sure to tell you it’s a Disney movie.
What does the movie do well? The non-baseball scenes. The plot gets kickstarted, because JGL’s dad (played by Dermot Mulroney) is a real piece of crap and is clearly planning on abandoning him, and he’s in the process of doing it legally. With the Angels in last place, he says they’ll be a family again when the Angels win the pennant. But we the audience, at least as adults, know this guy has no intention of being a father no matter what the Angels do. But JGL prays for it to happen and boom the plot kicks in.
Danny Glover, perfectly cast I might add, ends up finding out the boy is some sort of magic good luck charm, and having nothing to lose, puts him in the seat next to the dugout so he can tell him when angels appear. Totally something a last place, superstitious manager might do without having to believe in angels (he does end up believing).
So they bond together, Danny Glover softens up, JGL’s dad makes it official that he is a waste of space and Glover decides to abandon his important meeting with the owner to make dinner for the two kids on the day JGL finds out his dad doesn’t want him. Disney-fied, but fairly well done stuff. And then this movie finally has some decent baseball scenes at the end when the angels are not allowed to get involved because it’s a championship game. Although it still involves stuff like everybody thinking Glover is gonna pull Danza out of the game on a 3-2 count. Seriously someone involved in this has no clue about baseball.
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